To achieve the goals of the Philippine Programme Against Child Labour (PPACL), there are some areas at the level of national policies and programmes that need to be addressed as per the 2012 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor Report of the US Department of Labor (USDOL) such as: (a) laws and regulations, e.g., gap between minimum age for work and age of compulsory schooling; (b) coordination and enforcement, e.g., enforcement of child labour laws and how this relates with the anti-trafficking efforts; and (c) social programmes, e.g., enhancing existing social protection programmes to address child labour.